Monthly Archives: October 2008

Updates to www.ValueIreland.com

To those of you who may have arrived here via a redirect from pages on the www.ValueIreland.com website, please bear with us. [...]

Insurance You Don’t Need?

Every consumer’s personal circumstances can be diverse, it’s critical to review all the specifics of your situation before making a choice about [...]

Consumers Association of Ireland AGM – Show me the members!

At 1pm today in the O’Connell Suite of the Burlington Hotel in Dublin, the Consumers Association of Ireland held their AGM. There [...]

Consumers’ Association of Ireland AGM – Questions for members to ask the Board and CEO

Halloween is coming so I’m donning my Shane Ross mask and assuming his semi-regular role where he poses questions for shareholders of [...]

Bank Holiday Weekend – Consumer News Short Stack

Just a couple of short points before the long weekend. Firstly, as well as Dunnes Stores and Centra stores, apparently Superquinn also [...]

Save money on calls to eFlow

It took us multiple unanswered e-mails and eventually the submission of a Freedom of Information request to the NRA, but our SayNoTo1890.com [...]

The disaster of ignoring customer feedback

I wonder about the potential true impact of this “free dinner” offer that is allegedly offered in place of leaving a poor [...]

An interesting case of “follow the money”

There’s a long thread at the moment on the Consumer Pages of Boards.ie entitled “Menupages.ie – negative reviews are removed” where it [...]

How to build a website about nothing!

The useless Commission for Energy Regulation has launched it’s new “customer focused website“. This website has been in development since February 2005. [...]

I was wrong about the National Consumer Agency

In A recent post, I asked: “What will it take for these fuckers* to actually do something to protect consumers?”. This was [...]